When you hover over an email link, you’ll see a Proofpoint URL that starts with: https://urldefense., and proofpoint., and com/. This lets you know the email has been scanned. If you click an unsafe email link, a notice will appear letting you know the website has been blocked.
The user is redirected to the Proofpoint URL Defense service where the URL and website is analyzed. If the URL is considered bad: The user will be shown a page informing them “The website has Been Blocked!”.
This begs the query “What is url defense proofpoint?”
Proofpoint URL Defense is a technology that protects you and Penn network resources by blocking access to malicious websites. URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is another name for a web address link. How does Proofpoint URL Defense work?
You won’t notice a delay in opening the URL; Proofpoint takes only milliseconds to analyze the URL before allowing you to the site. In the image below, notice that when hovering over a link in an email, Outlook shows the URL that the link will take you to.
“UMass Medical School e-mail is protected by Proofpoint’s URL Defense product. Hyperlinks in this e-mail may begin with ‘urldefense., and proofpoint. Com’ and have a generally long format” Rewritten Proofpoint URL to Original Link Converter Please use the following text input to convert a rewritten Proofpoint URL to the original link.
What is urldefense proofpoint?
Proofpoint URL Defense protects against malicious email links. When an email is received, URL Defense rewrites all links in the message to redirect to the Proofpoint email filter.
Is there a Proofpoint url defense decoder available for essentials?
There isn’t a Proofpoint URL Defense Decoder available to Essentials customers. However, searching for “URL Defense Decoder” will pull up decoders that have be posted by our partners.
What is Proofpoint and how does it work?
Proofpoint is a cybersecurity platform aimed to protect workers and data from advanced cybersecurity criminals that target email, social media and mobile devices. Proofpoint’s email protection is a cloud-based solution that allows companies to easily filter their inbox and outbox.
One thought is that Proofpoint Essentials leverages the advanced power of Targeted Attack Protection, Proofpoint’s industry leading email analysis solution, to provide small to mid-sized enterprises with URL Defense, the only service that effectively detects, catches and analyzes malicious URLs targeting this market. Download the data sheet to learn more.
How does url Defense know if a link is safe?
If links can’t be definitively classified as safe when the message is received, the URL is rewritten so that clicking it will cause URL Defense to evaluate the linked website a second time. If the link is safe, you will see no difference.
While we were reading we ran into the query “Does url defense re-write all links in emails?”.
One idea is that URL Defense can be configured so that it doesn’t have to re-write all links in emails. URL’s will not be re-written that contain the specified Domains listed/IP addresses This will exclude re-writing URL’s for emails from domains associated with the organization’s account.